Questions tagged [cellular-automata]
Puzzles involving cellular automata, such as Conway's Game of Life.
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Cellular Automata Rule 30
What are cellular automata?
Cellular automata describes a broad category of computational models that covers various cellular automations, some of the most intriguing of which involve 'simple' rules ...
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Find the rule of a cellular automaton
There are already many challenges where you are given a cellular automaton rule and an initial state and you have to find the state after a certain number of steps. This challenge is the opposite: you ...
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Is it a canonical elementary CA rule number?
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Given an elementary cellular automaton rule number like, for example, 28 = 00011100…
We can swap \$\color{red}{\text{the 2nd bit with the 5th bit}}\$ ...
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Reverse Conway's Game of Life
Conway's Game of Life is a cellular automaton "played" on an infinite grid, filled with cells that are either alive or dead. Once given an initial state, the board evolves indefinitely ...
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Just Friends… in code golf
We already have challenges dealing with simulating vanilla Conway's Game of Life, Wireworld and rule 110, but so far none corresponding to a (specific) non-totalistic rule. So here is one.
In June ...
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Custom Games of Life
There's a lot of questions about Conway's Game of Life, but nothing about customization (Related: 2-Player Life). Given an input, determine the result on a 100x100 grid after some iterations. The ...
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Live a longer life
Conways' Game of Life is a well known cellular automaton "played" on an infinite grid, filled with cells that are either alive or dead. Once given an initial state, the board evolves ...
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Calculate the highest possible period oscillator in Conway's Game of Life
Input: a whole positive number greater than 4
Output: A whole positive number that describes the highest possible period an oscillator could have inside a square space of size (input)x(input) in a &...
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Quicksand (piles)
In this fastest-code challenge, you take a positive integer as input, which represents the height of a sand pile, located at (0,0) on an infinite square grid. For example, if our input is ...
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Cell Evolution Matrix
Your lab needed to simulate how a particular cell evolves over time in a 2D grid space. A sample 2D grid space below shows a single cell at the centre of the grid.
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AoCG2021 Leftover: HexaGoL
This challenge is one of the two challenges which were planned for Advent of Code Golf 2021, but didn't fit into the 25-day schedule.
Related to AoC2020 Day 24, Part 2.
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Binary triangle A141727
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Generate the 2D sequence of bits of A141727. (Allowed I/O methods explained at the bottom.)
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Draw constraint system #18762389
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Page 219 of A New Kind of Science (a book by Stephen Wolfram, the creator of Mathematica) shows an interesting 2D pattern generated by constraints. The relevant section in the book starts ...
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Leave a wake of dead cells behind you
Conway's Game of Life is a well known cellular automaton "played" on an infinite grid, filled with cells that are either alive or dead. Once given an initial state, the board evolves ...
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Keep PPCG running in Game of Life
Conways' Game of Life is a well known cellular automaton "played" on an infinite grid, filled with cells that are either alive or dead. Once given an initial state, the board evolves ...
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